If you can’t beat ’em, join ’em!
Bring Back British Rail is developing
its own ‘franchises’

We’re transforming Bring Back British Rail into the national hub for a network of grassroots campaigns around the country each targeting a different private Train Operating Company: highlighting its failures and inefficiencies and promoting public ownership as the commonsense alternative.

Click on the Train Operating Company names below to find out about existing campaigns in your local area or how to set one up. If you’re already involved in a campaign, please become one of our affiliated ‘franchises’ by emailing the address below!

Transport is an essential public service and ought to be publicly owned and publicly controlled. We need an enormous expansion in the investment in our railways and that is the best way of achieving it.

Like most people in Britain, I think that a railway is a natural function of the state, and so ought to be run by the state – for the sake of coherence, transparency, continuity, accountability and national pride.

If the private companies that took over the national railways are cutting back and eroding services at a time when the climate crisis demands expanded low-carbon transportation alternatives to keep more of us out of planes, then these services too must be reclaimed.

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Bring Back British Rail is coordinated from Glasgow by Ellie Harrison, with the help of a small network of volunteers around the UK.
The campaign operates as a ‘non-charitable campaigning body’ and so is free to carry out political activity and act as a pressure group.
It aims to be a completely autonomous and transparent passenger-led organisation, which has no direct affiliation with any political parties.Accounts | Privacy Policy | Press & Media Enquiries: info@bringbackbritishrail.org